UID:
almahu_9948236322202882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 218 pages) :
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illustrations; digital file(s).
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2013. Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
ISBN:
9781847794444
Content:
This is the first academic book ever written on women and body hair, which has been seen until now as too trivial, ridiculous or revolting to write about. Even feminist writers or researchers on the body have found remarkably little to say about body hair, usually ignoring it completely. It would appear that the only texts to elaborate on body hair are guides on how to remove it, medical texts on ‘hirsutism’, or fetishistic pornography on ‘hairy’ women. The last taboo also questions how and why any particular issue can become defined as ‘self-evidently’ too silly or too mad to write about. Using a wide range of thinking from gender theory, queer theory, critical and literary theory, history, art history, anthropology and psychology, the contributors argue that in fact body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identities. It is sure to provide many academic researchers with a completely fresh perspective on all of the fields mentioned above.
Note:
Made available via: manchesterhive.
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MUP 2020 titles.
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1. The last taboo: women, body hair and feminism / Karín Lesnik-Oberstein -- 2. ‘The wives of geniuses I have sat with’: body hair, genius, and modernity / Daniela Caselli -- 3. A history of pubic hair or reviewers’ responses to Terry Eagleton’s 'After Theory' / Louise Tondeur -- 4. Hairs on the lens: female body hair on the screen / Alice Macdonald -- 5. ‘La justice, c’est la femme à barbe !’: the bearded lady, displacement and recuperation in Apollinaire’s ‘Les mamelles de Tirésias’ / Stephen Thomson -- 6. ‘That wonderful phænomenon’: female body hair and English literary tradition / Carolyn D. Williams -- 7. 'Fur' or hair: l’effroi et l’attirance of the wild-woman / Jacqueline Lazú -- 8. Designers’ bodies: women and body hair in contemporary art and advertising / Laura Scuriatti -- 9. Bikini fur and fur bikinis / Sue Walsh -- 10. Women with beards in early modern Spain / Sherry Velasco -- 11. On Frida Kahlo’s moustache: A reading of 'Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair and its criticism / Neil Cocks.
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Also available in print form.
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Mode of access: internet via World Wide Web.
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat or other PDF reader (latest version recommended), Internet Explorer or other browser (latest version recommended).
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In English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Lesnik-Oberstein, Karín. The last taboo: women and body hair, Manchester, UK. : Manchester University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780719075001
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7765/9781847794444
URL:
https://www.manchesterhive.com/view/9781847794444/9781847794444.xml
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781847794444
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